Gdp to be negative this the First Quarter of 2021. It is friday before a holiday week 59 minutes left in the session down a quarter of a percent on the s p 500. No gobbledy gook coming up for the next two hours here either. Coming up on this show, instead we are going to dive into the latest on the coronavirus and pfizers push to get emergency use authorization for its vaccine with the fda commissioner and pfizer board member dr. Scott gottlieb. Plus, new york city shutting st. Louis down the head of the Teachers Union in new york will be here to weigh in. Lets check on futures mike santoli tracking the margaret as always meg tirrell with the latest on pfizers vaccine and bertha comes has the latest on what President Trump just announced. Mike santoli, lets start with you. Not disturbed so far by the news last night about the treasury pulling the funds from the fed. If you look at the pattern here, it is about a flat week as well. Trading just below the highs we hit on monday. Before t
Says the economy will take off quote, like a rocket ship when it reopens. The questions, though, are when will that be and what will it look like. The market is asking those very same questions as it searches for direction this morning. More green on the screen but again, markets want to know how much economic damage has been done. Meanwhile, moodys says economic output fell a staggering 29 in the first week of april. That is compared to march. That is the first full week of true social distancing rules in place across the country, and that was the result. Down 29 . The other big story of the day, the w. H. O. Is under fire from President Trump. The president saying he may freeze funding to the organization over its response to the pandemic. This is happening as we get more clarity on what may be in a fourth stimulus package. President trump wants 250 billion more for Small Business. Senator schumer wants a 25,000 bonus for front line heroes Like Health Care workers. And we also have s
The Vice President is the governments point person. Plus, is jack dorseys job on the line . An activist investor with a sizable stake in twitter is pushing for changes. First, some ominous news in the u. S. More deaths here stateside. Despite that, the market is going green. Cindy . Es it look like it in sydney. Paul it going pretty well. Markets reacting on promises of support from Central Banks. A strong rally, higher by 3. 5 . Futures pointing higher, better than 1 as well. Alsoi futures and kospi stronger. The yen has weakened. The boj will do what it can to support markets. The aussie dollar still has a 65 handle. It is reserve bank of australia decision day and the consensus now is that the rba is likely to cut the cash rate to half of 1 . Lets take a closer look at what happened here. Stocks surging. Ending up over 4 with investors hoping that Central Banks will be coming to the rescue. For more, we are joined by Abigail Doolittle in new york. What is driving the optimism . Abig
Will it make its way back to zero . Seems to be part of the conversation building in markets. Barrelumped above 65 a as supply disruptions in iraq brought concern to geoPolitical Risk. With more is Annmarie Hordern. Detention we are seeing in libya and iraq come very different in nature. What is the impact of these on oil supplies . Annmarie they are both geoPolitical Risks to the oil supply. In libya, the government says we could go to 72,000 barrels a day. This has to do with the eastern military commander. He has a blockade now on the port, so actual supply is not disrupted. The market may be shrugging off a little bit because in days or hours, that blockade could be lifted. Iraq, while it is a minor disruption, which is producing more than 4 Million Barrels a day, it opens up a window of worry. Just last thursday, the iea says iraq remains very vulnerable. It is more about could the supply threatened become much bigger. Anna they are overproducing their opec target. Annmarie this c
17th sadly on that day, the Intelligence Community Inspector General formally notified the congress the administration was foreboding him from turning over a whistleblower complaint. On constitution day. This is a violation of law shortly there after press reports began to break of a phone call by the president of the United States calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election this is a breach of his Constitutional Responsibilities. The facts are these. The Intelligence Community Inspector General who was appointed by President Trump determined that the complaint is both of urgent concern and credible and its disclosure he went on to say relates to one of the most significant and important of the director of National Intelligences responsibility to the american people. On thursday the Inspector General testified before the House Intelligence Committee stating that the acting director of National Intelligence balked him from disclosing the whistleblower kpla complaint this i